Alter-ego: Prim & Proper Peggy

Peg

Characteristics:- inhibited, conservative, prudent, humble, resolute

Life with Peg:- sensible, responsible, hard-working Peg never wastes anything, including time or effort. Dresses in sensible mix & match trousers and skirts in neutral colours; plain blouses in cream or white; multi-purpose tailored jackets; sensible shoes - no high heels; always carries an umbrella and sunscreen in her tote bag. Makes a good living but is always saving for a rainy day or ploughing it into her mortgage so lives frugally. Takes one brief holiday a year - somewhere nice, local, and not too expensive. Never spends money on frivolities, only on things needed and useful. Secretly loves a good romantic story but would never let on as she feels guilty about it. Peggy knows her Ps and Qs and always minds them. She's offended by anything crass. Her home is comfortable and safe with nothing that might offend anyone’s sensibilities - bland some might say, but she detests clutter and too much colour makes her anxious. She is very neat and tidy. And never forgets Birthdays.

Peg is honest and loyal but tends to see the world in black and white, emotionally and intellectually, which means she can be a little rigid and judgmental. She sets extremely high standards (especially for herself) and can be difficult to please. Named after her beloved grandmother, who embodied and instilled Victorian sensibilities, a post-war thriftiness and a strong work ethic. Peg is the voice of temperance, thrives on order and is very uncomfortable with change. 

Although raised to be pragmatic, Peggy was one of the most purely idealistic of children. It is she who studied law to uphold human rights and defend the innocent and who is most fiercely protective of her loved ones, including her alter-egos, even when she finds them (and their lifestyles) hard to understand. She's known to have been disarmed by kindness.

Peg's favourite quotations:-

A stitch in time saves nine.

Proverb

Manifest plainness, 

Embrace simplicity, 

Reduce selfishness, 

Have few desires.

Lao-tzu

Industry, thrift and self-control are not sought because they create wealth, but because they create character. 

Calvin Coolidge

To be free, to be happy and fruitful, can only be attained through sacrifice of many common but overestimated things.

Robert Henri

The spirit of simplicity is not an inherited gift, but the results of a laborious conquest. Plain living, like high thinking, is simplification. [...] 

Simplicity is a state of mind.

Charles Wagner

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